On Monday 29 October 2007 04:15:45 am Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 28.10.07 18:31:25, Darren Dale wrote: > > I am trying to understand how to run a second event loop using a qthread. > > The Qt docs indicate this is possible, but I haven't found any examples. > > I have a simple example that I think should work, but doesn't. When I run > > my thread's exec_(), it blocks. The actual application I am writing calls > > the qApp's exec_ before the thread's exec_, but even then the thread's > > exec_ blocks further execution. Does anyone know how to do this? > > Quite easy: Run exec_() inside the new thread, not inside your GUI/main > thread. To do that add a run() method which only contains > > self.exec_() > > Then from the main thread (i.e. after the text.connect) start your > thread by calling a.start(). You might need to add another function to > your thread-class that starts the timer, but I'm not sure might as well > just work as is...
Thank you, Andreas. The example I posted didn't quite work, the label text wasn't updated, but the event loop runs as I wanted. The actual application I am working on is now working as I had hoped it would. I will try to post a working version of my example, but I am on a deadline and don't have time to do it right now. Thanks again, Darren _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
